#archiveteam 2014-03-18,Tue

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18:10 🔗 arkiver widgetbox download is going fine
18:10 🔗 arkiver 3.2 million urls downloaded
18:10 🔗 arkiver 75 GB
18:11 🔗 arkiver but I'm not totally sure it will be done before the deadline
18:55 🔗 SketchCow Internet Archive has now provided over 2 Petabytes of MAME ROM Download.
18:55 🔗 SketchCow 2Pb
18:55 🔗 exmic that was fast
22:58 🔗 namespace You guys seem like you would know, where do I go to find the original prices of stuff like a VT100 terminal?
23:04 🔗 namespace Is there a website that collects such information, or do I have to go trawling through old magazines and catalogs?
23:05 🔗 exmic I'd say you'll probably have to do some research
23:18 🔗 chfoo is Archive Maniac in here? re: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Chfoo&diff=18799&oldid=18570 . i'm not sure if trolling or just confused.
23:24 🔗 ivan` just a confused 11 year old?
23:28 🔗 namespace "I have an idea. How's about we can contribute sites to the Archive Team, whether or not it has been shut down."
23:28 🔗 namespace How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
23:29 🔗 namespace Oh wait, I think I get it actually. He thinks there's a rule against grabbing sites that don't have a 'we're shutting down' message.
23:33 🔗 dashcloud namespace: do you have any idea what kind of publication or place would've had that information originally?
23:33 🔗 namespace dashcloud: No, I don't.
23:33 🔗 namespace Probably a trade or computer magazine.
23:33 🔗 namespace Or a catalog.
23:35 🔗 dashcloud there's craptons of those on IA, but unfortunately if you need to search through them, you'll have to search on Google for the magazine
23:35 🔗 namespace Well JS wanted me to try tagging some anywya.
23:35 🔗 namespace *anyway
23:36 🔗 SketchCow Huaazzhdffkfkf
23:36 🔗 SketchCow I'm about to scan in a newspaper AT the Archive!
23:37 🔗 SketchCow MicroTimes
23:37 🔗 SketchCow If it works, we're going to have me night scan
23:37 🔗 namespace Sweet.
23:37 🔗 namespace So is there a tutorial floating around on how to go about tagging the computer magazines? I remember you said to type out the index.
23:38 🔗 namespace (Or do I scan it with OCR?)
23:38 🔗 namespace s/index/tabe of contents/
23:38 🔗 namespace *table
23:39 🔗 dashcloud SketchCow can help you get started- I'll just tell you what I did. I just typed in all of the table of contents into the same template, same style across each issue of a magazine
23:42 🔗 dashcloud one table of contents per file, one (massive) line per file. See this issue of Big-K magazine for an example: https://archive.org/details/01-big-k-magazine
23:45 🔗 namespace "one (massive) line"
23:45 🔗 namespace You mean in my text editor or?
23:46 🔗 dashcloud I set my text editor to word-wrap lines on the screen for me, and then just typed everything on one line.
23:47 🔗 dashcloud I don't know if the current thinking on magazine metadata has changed or not- it's been some time since I last did a magazine
23:47 🔗 namespace dashcloud: Big-K is what was recommended to me as an example the last time I asked.
23:49 🔗 dashcloud here's the template I created for Big-K to make sure I did the same thing each time: http://paste.archivingyoursh.it/siyovuvusi.vbs
23:49 🔗 namespace dashcloud: On linux here, haven't used Microsoft office in years.
23:50 🔗 namespace (That is a visual basic script file right?)
23:50 🔗 dashcloud no
23:50 🔗 dashcloud the paste site gives strange names to things
23:50 🔗 exmic a bunch of vintage sears/penneys/etc catalog scans: http://192.185.93.157/~wishbook/
23:50 🔗 dashcloud I used Kate to write up the metadata- maybe a little heavy, but since I was already using KDE, it didn't bother me much

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